London Police accounts of subway killing 100% lies

[Algorem]

August 17, 2005
London Inquiry Refutes Police in Their Killing of a Suspect
By ALAN COWELL

LONDON, Aug. 16 - An official investigation was reported Tuesday to have directly contradicted the police account of the killing of a young Brazilian man after the bombing attempts in London on July 21, including the assertion that he had been fleeing officers when he was shot...

On Tuesday, however, a news report on British television said an inquiry led by the Independent Police Complaints Commission had contradicted every one of those points. The report said that the officers had misidentified Mr. Menezes as one of the failed July 21 attackers and that he was killed even though he walked into the subway station wearing a light denim jacket, did not vault the turnstile and was sitting on the train when the officers moved in...

The documents broadcast on Tuesday, however, said that the man had not seemed to react to being followed, and that the officers mistakenly identified him as one of the July 21 bombers just as he boarded the train.

At that point, according to the report, one officer suddenly pinned Mr. Menezes and another shot him. The report quoted an unidentified officer as saying: "I grabbed the male in the denim jacket by wrapping both my arms around his torso, pinning his arms to his side. I then pushed him back onto the seat where he had been previously sitting. I then heard a gunshot very close to my left ear and was dragged away onto the floor of the carriage."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/17/international/europe/17london.html?ei=5094&en=2756822c96c39c76&hp=&ex=1124251200&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print

[bushisanidiot]

1. It still sounds like a hit job. Executing without attempting to capture

him or give him a trial doesn't sound right to me.